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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

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