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If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.
Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.
What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.
You don't know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.
The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.
The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.
So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.
There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?