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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
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

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

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