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

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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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
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
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late

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

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