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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

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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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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

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