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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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