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Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work

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