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

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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 mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature

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

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