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Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

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Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

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Nice guys finish last.

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The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

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I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

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The goal of all life is death.

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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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