Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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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.Samuel Butler
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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