That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency
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While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin.Quintilian
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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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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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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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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