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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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