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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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