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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
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
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 obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

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