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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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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb

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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