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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. ...more

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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all ...more

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You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will b...more

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A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a sing...more

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I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners."Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth...more

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I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.