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A liar should have a good memory.

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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Body Infinite Mindset Nature
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom

A liar should have a good memory.

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