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A liar should have a good memory.

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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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
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
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
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

A liar should have a good memory.

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