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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.

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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN

Change Greatness Nature
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN

Easy Mindset Teaching
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
QUINTILIAN

Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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 perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue

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