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A liar ought to have a good memory.

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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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
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
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
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
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
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
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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

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