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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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 seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

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