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

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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature

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

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