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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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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar

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