A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the
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It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.
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Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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