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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
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
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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