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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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