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

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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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary

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