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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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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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

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

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