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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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