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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Difficult Excuse Ourselves
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
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
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
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
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
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
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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
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
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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