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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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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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Fast Oneself Result Writing
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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