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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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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth

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