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A liar ought to have a good memory.

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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
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
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
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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

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