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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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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
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

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