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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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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
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time

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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