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

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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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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

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