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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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Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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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Accompany Average Impression Support
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary

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