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

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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
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
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
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
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value

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

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