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

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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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

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

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