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

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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
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
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue

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