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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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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
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude

Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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