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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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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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse

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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