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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result 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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study

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