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3When, accordingly, he came to study, he was sluggish of comprehension and slow, but what he comprehended he held fast in his memory. And this is generally the way of nature: those who are well endowed are more apt to recall things to mind, but those retain things in their memory who acquire them with toil and trouble;[2] for everything they learn becomes branded, as it were, upon their minds.
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Notes
[2] Cf. Aristotle, De Mem. i. 1, 2, 24.