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" He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. "
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Does
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Only
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" To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. "
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" We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. "
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" Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. "
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" That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. "
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Which
" Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. "
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" Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. "
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" Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. "
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" Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. "
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" 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. "
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Worth
" 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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Neighbor
Born
" It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. "
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" 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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Our
Fresh
" 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. "
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Character
Matter
" Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake. "
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Those
Vain
" In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. "
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Experience
More
" While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. "
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Sometimes
Truth
" It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory. "
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Good
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" 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
Variety
Nature
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" For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. "
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Yield
Win
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