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A liar must have a good memory.

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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
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
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
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 must have a good memory.

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