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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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