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"Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying."
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"Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means."

"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."

"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."
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"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you."

"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty."

"The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time."

"In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping."

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick."
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