Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.Don Marquis
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
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Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else.
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