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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.

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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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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude

Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.

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