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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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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
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
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
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

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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