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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

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He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

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In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

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Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

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The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

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Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

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Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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