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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."

"She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away."

"None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience."

"A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own."

"There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks."

"Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds."

"Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse."
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