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"Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
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"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."

"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."

"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."

"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."

"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."
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