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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

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