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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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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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue

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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