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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.
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It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.
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A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.
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I've never seen a soft heart turn hard," said Taleswapper. "At least not without good reason."
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I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.
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What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
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Didn't he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
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Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.
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Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
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You can't change what you don't understand.
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Last night Alvin just got mad, which she said would only guarantee that he'd stay stupid.
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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.
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Do you speak Scorn and Mockery to everyone? Or just to your betters?
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You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.
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He had left home to get away, not to go toward anything. There was no greater freedom than that.
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Lookit that," he said. "A lawyer who knows how to do something useful. That's a miracle."
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War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.
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I don't have to be a gentleman," said Balzac. "I am an artist."
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Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
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It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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Around here, ma'am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain't eating then they lying.
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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
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The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden," said Papa Moose, "now that snakes can't talk."
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How short life is for fools.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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