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A liar must have a good memory.

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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
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
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue

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