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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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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value

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