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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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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity

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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