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

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

Quintilian · Hope

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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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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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