When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
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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...
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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...
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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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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.
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The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
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Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
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It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't ...
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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.
