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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice 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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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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