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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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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
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
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

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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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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