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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

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I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

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I know three things will never be believed-the true, the probable, and the logical.

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Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow.

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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

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Perfection is the enemy of the good.

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The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.

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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

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Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.

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