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/ page 764 of 1205 /A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
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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.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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