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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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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
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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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