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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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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 Infinite Mindset Nature
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support

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