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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

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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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Accompany Average Impression Support
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
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
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study

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