Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIANWe 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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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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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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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She abounds with lucious faults.
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Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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