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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
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
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves

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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