Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very carefulabout lying; otherwise you are n

Now as to the matter of lying. You want to be very careful

about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

Once caught, you can ever again be, in the eyes of 【M1】 ______.

the good and the pure, that you were before. Many a 【M2】 ______.

young person have injured himself permanently 【M3】 ______.

through a single clumsy and illfinished lie, the

result of carelessness born to incomplete training. 【M4】 ______.

Some authorities hold that the young ought to lie at all. 【M5】 ______.

That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;

still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain,

and I believe I am right, that the young ought to

be temperate to the use of this great art until practice and 【M6】 ______.

experience shall give them that confidence, elegance, and

precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful

and profitable. Patience, diligence, painstaking attention to

detail--these are the requirements; these, in the rime, 【M7】 ______.

will make the student perfect; at these, and upon these only, 【M8】 ______.

may he rely as the sure foundation for future eminence. Think

what tedious years of study, thought, practice, experience,

went to the equipment of that peerless old master who was

able to impose upon the whole world the lofty and

sounding maxim which "truth is mighty and will prevail" 【M9】 ______.

--that most majestic compound fracture of fact which any

woman born has yet achieved. Of the history of our race, and

each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence

that a truth is not hard to kill and what a lie told well is immortal. 【M10】 ______.

【M1】