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The Art of memory (n.) is based upon locality — no wonder, given the powers of suggestion that places possess.
Beauty (n.) is desired for its own sake: men undergo painful treatment to restore a limb's natural look even when its use will be diminished.
The Child (n.) shows without instruction the sparks of virtue, from which the philosopher's torch of reason must be kindled.
Curiosity (n.) in children cannot be deterred even by punishment: drive them away from their inquiries, and back they come.
Euphemism (n.) can magnify what it means to diminish: calling wealth \"preferred\" instead of \"good\" gives it more importance, for \"preferred\" is the longer and more impressive word.
Farming (n.) is the foster-mother of the vine, trimming, pruning and propping it toward the goal that nature prescribes.
The Fear of death (n.) is innate: young children who know none of death's terrors are terribly frightened if in fun we threaten to let them fall from a height.
Love of life (n.) makes men beg their bread rather than die, and kept Philoctetes, racked with pain, shooting birds on the wing and weaving their plumage into clothes.
The Pig (n.) was given a mind only to serve as salt and keep it from going bad.
Place (n.) stirs us more strongly than hearing of famous men's deeds or reading their writings.