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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend

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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