Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
QUINTILIANOur 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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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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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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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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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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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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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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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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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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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