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“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”

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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

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