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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
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
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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