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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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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality

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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