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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

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