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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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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
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
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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

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