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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

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It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

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Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

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Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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