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"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."
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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."
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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."
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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for."
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"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."
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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
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"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."
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"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."
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"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."
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"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
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"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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