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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

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