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

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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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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

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

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