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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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