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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection

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