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

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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
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
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win

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