An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
QUINTILIANThose who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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