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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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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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
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
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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

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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