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A liar ought to have a good memory.

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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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
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
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner

A liar ought to have a good memory.

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