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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach

She abounds with lucious faults.

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