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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
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
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

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