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

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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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 Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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

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