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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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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
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible

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

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