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

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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
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

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

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