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

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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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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
QUINTILIAN

Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
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
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
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

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

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