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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.

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