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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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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue

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