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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
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
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth

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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