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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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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
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
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
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 heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself

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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