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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

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