“ Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. ”
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“ Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ”
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“ When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”
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“ Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ”
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“ The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. ”
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“ Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. ”
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“ All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ”
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“ All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ”
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“ The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them. ”
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“ Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ”
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“ Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ”
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“ Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. ”
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“ If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. ”
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“ Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. ”
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“ If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. ”
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“ If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. ”
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“ If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. ”
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“ Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. ”
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“ Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. ”
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“ I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ”
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