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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

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Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

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One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavet)

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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est)

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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

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The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

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