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A liar should have a good memory.

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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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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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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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Nationality: Roman

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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