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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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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
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
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
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection

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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