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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

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