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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
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
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk

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