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A liar should have a good memory.

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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar

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