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

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering

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

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