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

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering

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