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

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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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

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

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