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When in doubt tell the truth.

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There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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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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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

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Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

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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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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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