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

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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
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
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

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

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