Medicine for the dead is too late.
QUINTILIANIt is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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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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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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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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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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