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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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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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
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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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune

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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