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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
- Current
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Oaths
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Hearing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- Inaccuracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
- Misleading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Times
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- Nov 07, 2020
All truth is not to be told at all times.
- Irony
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
- Conclusions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- First Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Exact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
- Excluded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
- Bona Fide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
- Christian Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
- Lord
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- Nov 07, 2020
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
- Pursuit
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of art is the history of revivals.
- Chisel
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- Nov 07, 2020