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A liar must have a good memory.

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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
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
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy 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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner

A liar must have a good memory.

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