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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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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
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 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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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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