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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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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Fast Oneself Result Writing

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