Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it…– Samuel Butler
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.
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.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable
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