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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing.
I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.
Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.
The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.
Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.
Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.
Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.
You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.