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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
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
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 it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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