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" A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. "

" A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. "

" A liar should have a good memory. "

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

" Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. "

" Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. "

" Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. "

" Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. "

" 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. "

" For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. "

" 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. "

" He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. "

" In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. "

" It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. "

" It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. "

" It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. "

" It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. "

" It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. "

" Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. "

" Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. "

" Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune. "

" Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. "

" That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. "

" The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. "

" The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. "

" The perfection of art is to conceal art. "

" The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. "

" The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. "

" Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. "

" Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. "

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