Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
QUINTILIANFor comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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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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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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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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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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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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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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