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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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 the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom 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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