Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
QUINTILIANShe abounds with lucious faults.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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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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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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