"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."

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"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."

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"A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner."

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"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."

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"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes."

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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide."

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