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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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