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Usage is the best language teacher.

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

Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QUINTILIAN

Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIAN

Ourselves Verse
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late

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