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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue

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