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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

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