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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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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
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
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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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