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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study

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