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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 Parents Fathers Possible See Restrict Remark Highly Like Educated Regards Them Should
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. Quintilian
Words Will First Imitate Nurse Attempt He Hears Child Her
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. Quintilian
Alone Song Rude Men Lighten However Labors May Even
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. Quintilian
Easily Misery Idea Prosperous Form Right Right Idea
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. Quintilian
Ambition Virtues Though Parent Itself Often Vice
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. Quintilian
Perfection Soon Which Prematurely
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. Quintilian
Future Fear Worse Than Fortune Present
He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within. Quintus Ennius
Freedom Heart Constant Hath Clean He Within
During war, the laws are silent. Quintus Tullius Cicero
War Silent Laws
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