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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational 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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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