The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIANThough ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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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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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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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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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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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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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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