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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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