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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
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
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse

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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