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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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue

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