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

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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
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
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner

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

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