When pious frauds and holy shifts Are dispensations and gifts.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.Samuel Butler
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth O God O Montreal.
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Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.
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