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It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear. I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. Time is the only critic without ambition. I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. It is better in times of need to have a friend rather than money. Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." At its most basic root, the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality. Love is nature's second son. Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray. The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. I am going to seek a great Perhaps. The nearer the church, the further from God. A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. Skeptics are never deceived. The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
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