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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire

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