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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Forgiveness is a little thing when love is there.
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
The first thing a principle does is kill somebody
The more you read, the more things you will know.
So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!
Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
There is no failure except the failure of trying.
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
It is only life and love that give love and life.
I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.
I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
The highest God and the innermost God is one God.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.
They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together
What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
A God you understood would be less than yourself.
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.