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A liar ought to have a good memory.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
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
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing

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