"An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact."

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

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"The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law."

"The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves."

"Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property."

"Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget."

"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

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