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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

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