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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
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
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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

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