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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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Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please

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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