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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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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QUINTILIAN

Poet Quick Writing Yourself
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
QUINTILIAN

Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
QUINTILIAN

Happiness Pleasure Satire
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIAN

Art Hide Perfection
Usage is the best language teacher.
QUINTILIAN

Language One Liner Teacher
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
QUINTILIAN

Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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.
QUINTILIAN

Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
QUINTILIAN

Appearance Teaching
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
QUINTILIAN

Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QUINTILIAN

Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIAN

Alone Light Man Rude
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
QUINTILIAN

Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
QUINTILIAN

Goal Perspective Possible

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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