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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
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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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
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
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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