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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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