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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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