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

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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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
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

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

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