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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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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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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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