"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
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"Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite."
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"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept."
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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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"The perfection of art is to conceal art."
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"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
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