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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.

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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach 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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.

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