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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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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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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
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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet 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
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

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