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Quintilian Quote: “Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.”

51. “Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.”

Quintilian Quote: “It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.”

52. “It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.”

Quintilian Quote: “Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”

53. “Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”

Quintilian Quote: “While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.”

54. “While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.”

Quintilian Quote: “Medicine for the dead is too late.”

55. “Medicine for the dead is too late.”

Quintilian Quote: “A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.”

56. “A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.”

Quintilian Quote: “Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.”

57. “Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.”

Quintilian Quote: “That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.”

58. “That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.”

Quintilian Quote: “The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.”

59. “The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.”

Quintilian Quote: “Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.”

60. “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 Quote: “A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.”

61. “A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.”

Quintilian Quote: “Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.”

62. “Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.”

Quintilian Quote: “Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.”

63. “Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.”

Quintilian Quote: “Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.”

64. “Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.”

Quintilian Quote: “When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.”

65. “When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.”

Quintilian Quote: “The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.”

66. “The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.”

Quintilian Quote: “The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.”

67. “The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.”

Quintilian Quote: “One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.”

68. “One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.”

Quintilian Quote: “Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.”

69. “Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.”

Quintilian Quote: “For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.”

70. “For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.”

Quintilian Quote: “That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.”

71. “That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.”

Quintilian Quote: “Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.”

72. “Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.”

Quintilian Quote: “The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.”

73. “The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.”

Quintilian Quote: “Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”

74. “Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.”

Quintilian Quote: “In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.”

75. “In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.”

Quintilian Quote: “It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.”

76. “It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.”

Quintilian Quote: “For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.”

77. “For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.”

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