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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

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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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
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
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

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