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

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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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 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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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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