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

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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter 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
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude

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