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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue

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