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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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