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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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