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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
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
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
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please

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