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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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A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

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

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