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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
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 we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

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