Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.Quintilian
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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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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