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"Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner."
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"The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces."
Queen
"The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces."
Knight
"The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man."
Time
"A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces."
May
"When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn."
Party
"For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King."
Man
"Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other."
Purpose
"When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece."
Danger
"Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns."
Men
"In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed."
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"If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault."
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"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."
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"I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred."
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"I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault."
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"It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians."
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"Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours."
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"A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked."
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"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
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"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
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"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."
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