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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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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right

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