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

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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
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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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth

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