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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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

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