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A liar must have a good memory.

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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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Admission Ear Easy Mindset Offend
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
A liar should have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memory
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
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

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