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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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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right

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

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