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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

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A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
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
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
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

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