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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself

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