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"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest."
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"Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple," he had told her, "can't you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying?"
"I am not good at deception,' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right,' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything."
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"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
"When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man."
"The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty."
"For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without regretting the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom."
"Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning."
"Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible."
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