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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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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
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
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
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
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
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible

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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