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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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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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron

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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