A liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIANFor 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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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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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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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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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