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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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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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 in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice 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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