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If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
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
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
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

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