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"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
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"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
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"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
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"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
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"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
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"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."
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"The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
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"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."
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"A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out."
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