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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

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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.

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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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The history of art is the history of revivals.

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

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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.

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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

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