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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason

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