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

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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

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

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