By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
QUINTILIANSatiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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