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A liar must have a good memory.

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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
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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