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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

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