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

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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
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
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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

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

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