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"She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent."
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"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
"Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse."
"Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."
"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
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