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

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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion

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

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