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

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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
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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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