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Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
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
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
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

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