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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

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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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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation 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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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

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