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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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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude

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