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(They push their narrative so far back that if the story is good they smother its goodness.)

They push their narrative so far back that if the story is good they smother its goodness.

(The strength of a horse is better recognized in making a full sharp stop.)

The strength of a horse is better recognized in making a full sharp stop.

(Even among people who speak very well, I see some who want to break off their run and cannot.)

Even among people who speak very well, I see some who want to break off their run and cannot.

(While they are looking for the point at which to stop their steps, they go on dragging along.)

While they are looking for the point at which to stop their steps, they go on dragging along.

(Old men especially are dangerous, whose memory of things past remains,)

Old men especially are dangerous, whose memory of things past remains,

(but who have lost the memory of their repetitions.)

but who have lost the memory of their repetitions.

(I have seen some very amusing stories become very boring in the mouth of one nobleman;)

I have seen some very amusing stories become very boring in the mouth of one nobleman;

(everyone having been sated with them a hundred times.)

everyone having been sated with them a hundred times.

(Lying is an accursed vice.)

Lying is an accursed vice.

(I find that people ordinarily chastise harmless faults in children.)

I find that people ordinarily chastise harmless faults in children.

(However, only lying seem to me to be the actions which one should combat insistently.)

However, only lying seem to me to be the actions which one should combat insistently.

(Once the tongue has been put on this wrong track, it cannot be called back without amazing difficulty.)

Once the tongue has been put on this wrong track, it cannot be called back without amazing difficulty.