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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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