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I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful,...
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It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow...
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
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Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
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Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the...
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to...
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A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to...