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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
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
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
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
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

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

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