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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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