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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
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
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
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
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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Experience Value
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature

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