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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

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I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

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The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

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My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

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