In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIANThe soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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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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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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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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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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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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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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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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