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

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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
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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 learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth

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

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