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

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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend

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

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