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(12 votes)   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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(11 votes)   It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

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(10 votes)   Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

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(9 votes)   The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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(16 votes)   A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

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(14 votes)   It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

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(12 votes)   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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(12 votes)   It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

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(11 votes)   A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

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(11 votes)   Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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(11 votes)   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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(11 votes)   The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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(10 votes)   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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