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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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

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