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

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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth

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

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