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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue

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