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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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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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present

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

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