A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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But we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and we glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when we get a fair start.Mark Twain
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison
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