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

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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
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

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

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