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

Quintilian

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

Easy Mindset Teaching
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
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
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
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse

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