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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
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
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

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