A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
QUINTILIANWhere evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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