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A liar should have a good memory.

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Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
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
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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