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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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

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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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

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

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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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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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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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Nationality: Roman

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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