Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position
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Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
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The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
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Art never improves, but ... the material of art is never quite the same.
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Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
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Friendship improves hapiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
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