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

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A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
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One Liner Philosophy Religion
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue

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

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