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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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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
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
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
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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

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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