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

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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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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise

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

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