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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

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