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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching

Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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