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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
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
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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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