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

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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please

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

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