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

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

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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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The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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

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

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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

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

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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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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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