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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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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness 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

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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