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The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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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 worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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

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