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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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

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