Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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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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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Technical
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Honor
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Rude
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Deliberate
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Protection
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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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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Destruction Dumb
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Excite
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Parent
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.

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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Mindset
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Raise
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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