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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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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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
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

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