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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.[][]
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.[][]
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.[][]
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.[][]
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.[][]
God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.[][]
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.[][]
There is no bore like a clever bore.[][]
All animals but men know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it -and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow it. [][]
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.[][]
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