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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 the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
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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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
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
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue

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

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