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

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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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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves

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