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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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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise

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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