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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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
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 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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

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