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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.

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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
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.

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