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A liar must have a good memory.

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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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Agriculture Profit Student Talent Work
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
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
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself

A liar must have a good memory.

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