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

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
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 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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing

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