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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

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No human thing is of serious importance.

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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they don

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