"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

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"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?"

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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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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 do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"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!"

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"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."

"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless."

"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."

"Of all ghosts, the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."

"Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example."

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