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"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it." »Denis Diderot
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"The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual." »Seneca
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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt." »Rene Descartes
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"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh." »Robert Cecil
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"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color." »Seneca
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"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives." »Edmund Burke
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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." »Samuel Smiles
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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." »Samuel Smiles
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