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A liar ought to have a good memory.

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It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Easy Ideas Misery Prosperity Right
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
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
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 soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
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
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue

A liar ought to have a good memory.

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