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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet 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
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
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
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

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