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Medicine for the dead is too late.

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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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide

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