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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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