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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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