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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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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
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
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible

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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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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