Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIANIt seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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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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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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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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She abounds with lucious faults.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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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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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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