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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
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
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue

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