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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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