Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
QUINTILIANIt 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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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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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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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