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Example is the best precept.

Quote by Aesop about education, example

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about law

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Quote by William Godwin about trains, education, thinking

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

Quote by James Cash Penney about recollection, rules, time

A good example is far better than a good precept.

Quote by Dwight Lyman Moody about example, good, good luck