To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIANLately we have had many losses.
More Quintilian Quotes
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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