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

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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict

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

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