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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

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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
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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 should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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

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