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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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