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

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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
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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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom

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

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