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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

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