God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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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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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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