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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting...more

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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

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What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

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I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

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If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

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There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositin...more

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I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wo...more

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There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictate...more

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I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

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I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since...more

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When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to last an ordinarily respectabl...more

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I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are general...more