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

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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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 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

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