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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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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
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
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
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity 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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality

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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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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