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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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 must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
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

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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