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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. ...more

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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could ...more

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a sing...more

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I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners."Manners!" he said. "Why, it is merely the truth, and truth...more

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

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Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is i...more