To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIANThe obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
More Quintilian Quotes
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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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