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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
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
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
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
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

She abounds with lucious faults.

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