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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

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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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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
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

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

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