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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.

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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
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
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
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish

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