"Never tease an old dog, he might have one bite left."

Caution, Warning, Animals, Experience

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"Never tease an old dog, he might have one bite left."

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"The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed."

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"Throw caution to the wind and just do it."

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"The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!"

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"Watch out when the bad treats you well!"

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"Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck."

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"There was nothing wrong with fire as long as you didn't stand too close. Something to keep in mind."

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"The most profitable way to live this life is to trust no soul."

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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

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"The best things in life are beyond money, their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value."

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"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."

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"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep."

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"Majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows."

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"You. What is the moral difference, ifany, between the soldier and the civilian?""The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civicvirtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the bodypolitic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life.The civilian does not."

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"Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong."

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"I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation."

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