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A liar should have a good memory.

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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise

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