We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIANFear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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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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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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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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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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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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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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A liar must have a good memory.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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