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" Verse satire indeed is entirely our own. "
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Our
Verse
Indeed
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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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" Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. "
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Born
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" The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. "
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Idea
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Our
Fresh
" A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. "
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Laugh
" Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. "
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Nature
Changes
Great
" 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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Character
Matter
" The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. "
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Excellent
Admission
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" Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. "
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Fortune
Fear
Worse
" 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
Variety
Nature
" The perfection of art is to conceal art. "
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Perfection
Art
" When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. "
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Advantage
Yield
Win
" 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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Him
" To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. "
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Who
Imagination
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Beginning
Everything
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Talent
Will
" Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. "
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Virtues
Though
Ambition
" Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. "
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Cause
Virtues
Vice
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Those
Vain
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