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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.

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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
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
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

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