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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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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father 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

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