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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
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
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

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