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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.

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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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win

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