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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue

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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