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"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
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"The lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end."
"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."
"It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."
"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
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"Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary."
"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
"The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view."
"Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims."
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit sense."
"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
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