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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
A liar should have a good memory.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule

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