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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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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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

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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