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

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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing

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