When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.Samuel Butler
To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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