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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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