Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.
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Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?
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