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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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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
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
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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

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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