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Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk

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