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

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason

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

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