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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

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