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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
(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
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

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