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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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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
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

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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