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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
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
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

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