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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."
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"The root system supports the branches."

"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."

"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress."

"Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent."

"One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."

"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
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