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  • I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Lying Quotes , Grieving Quotes
  • Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jack London Quotes , Lying Quotes , Cutting Quotes
  • To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Lying Quotes
  • I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.
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    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Strong Quotes , Lying Quotes
  • There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Men Quotes