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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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