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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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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching

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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