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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

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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
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
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
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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

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