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

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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present

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

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