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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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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner

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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