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A liar ought to have a good memory.

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For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Lately we have had many losses.
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Late Lose One Liner
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
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
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
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
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

A liar ought to have a good memory.

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