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The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.
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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
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The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.
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The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.
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It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.
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It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks.
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I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.
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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
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Her voice had a thrill in it like music, frosty music.
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L]oyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.
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What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.
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Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.
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T]here was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity.
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On the newspapers of the Craw Press:] Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking.
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W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
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I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
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If anyone makes trouble I've advised him to dot him one on the jaw in the best British style.
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It's the Idea that wins every time -- the Idea with brains and guts behind it.
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To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
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Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
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We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.
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I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.
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