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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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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
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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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