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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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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
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
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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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter 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
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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 is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict

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