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

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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection

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

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