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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
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
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher

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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