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"It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings " much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."
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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."
"The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite."
"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
"You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it."
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"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
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"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."
"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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