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A liar ought to have a good memory.

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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
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
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right

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