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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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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
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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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