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A liar ought to have a good memory.

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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
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 learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
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
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
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
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
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
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron

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