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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
~ Quintilian
Bought
Costs
Expense
Laugh
Much
Too
Too Much
Virtue
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
~ Quintilian
Costs
Expense
Laugh
Much
Propriety
Purchased
Too
Too Much
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A liar should have a good memory.
~ Quintilian
Good
Good Memory
Liar
Memory
Should
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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.
~ Quintilian
Alone
Educated
Fathers
Highly
Like
Parents
Possible
Regards
Remark
Restrict
See
Should
Them
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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.
~ Quintilian
Agriculture
Barren
Consequently
Derive
Devoid
More
Profit
Soil
Student
Talent
Than
Who
Will
Work
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
~ Quintilian
Beginning
End
Everything
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
~ Quintilian
Fear
Fortune
Future
Present
Than
Worse
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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.
~ Quintilian
Been
Better
Born
Destruction
Dumb
Employ
Gifts
He
His
Man
Nay
Neighbor
Providence
Rather
Reason
Should
Than
Void
Would
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
~ Quintilian
Before
Easier
Mind
Set
Teach
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
~ Quintilian
Alone
Desire
Excite
Forbidden
Lawful
Loved
Pleasures
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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.
~ Quintilian
All-Powerful
Animals
Architect
Character
Creator
Distinguish
Faculty
God
Him
Impressed
Man
Nature
Other
Proper
Speech
World
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
~ Quintilian
Differs
Does
Evil
He
His
Lacks
Only
Opportunity
Speaks
Who
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
~ Quintilian
Almost
Almost Everything
Everything
Experience
More
Precept
Than
Valuable
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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
~ Quintilian
Be A Man
Fitting
Good
Good Memory
Liar
Man
Memory
Should
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
~ Quintilian
Concentrate
Easier
Hand
Many
Much
One Thing
Powers
Than
Thing
Things
Try
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
~ Quintilian
Attempt
Child
First
He
Hears
Her
Imitate
Nurse
Will
Words
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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.
~ Quintilian
Boy
Correcting
Discourage
Effort
Faults
Liable
Mind
Severity
Teacher
Times
Too
Warn
While
Worth
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
~ Quintilian
Ever
Genius
Happens
Maturity
Premature
Seldom
Shoot
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
~ Quintilian
Alone
Even
However
Labors
Lighten
May
Men
Rude
Song
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
~ Quintilian
Attempted
Changes
Effect
Great
Herself
Nature
Never
Rapidly
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