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A liar must have a good memory.

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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Ambition Parent Vice Virtue
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
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
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win

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