Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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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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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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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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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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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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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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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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