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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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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
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk

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