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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend

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