Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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