Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANIn almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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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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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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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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