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

Quintilian

Usage is the best language teacher.
QUINTILIAN

Language One Liner Teacher
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIAN

Form Mindset Reading Wide
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
QUINTILIAN

Different Easy Time
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QUINTILIAN

Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIAN

Advantage Hope Protection Win
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIAN

Beginning Deliberate Growth
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QUINTILIAN

Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
QUINTILIAN

Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
QUINTILIAN

Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
QUINTILIAN

Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
QUINTILIAN

Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
QUINTILIAN

Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
A liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIAN

Goodness Lying Memory
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIAN

Examination Expectation Time
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
QUINTILIAN

Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIAN

Defeat Protection Wisdom

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

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

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