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

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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
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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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection

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

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