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"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."
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"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."
"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."
"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."
"Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject."
"The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine."
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