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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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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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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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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