In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIANThe obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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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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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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