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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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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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
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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law

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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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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