To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Jean-Francois de La Harpe

To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

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Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

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