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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right

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