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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

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It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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Life is one long process of getting tired.

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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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There is no bore like a clever bore.

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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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