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

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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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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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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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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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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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