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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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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory

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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