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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories

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