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

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection

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