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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories

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