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

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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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 defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories

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

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