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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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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
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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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope

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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