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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

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