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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The
reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have
so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we
can squander it.

If you wish to lower yourself in a person's favor, one
good way is to tell his story over again, the way you
heard it.

Spending one's capital is feeding a dog on his own tail.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we
think of ourselves and how little we think of the other
person.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of
ability in concealing it.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries
disappear and life stands explained.

It is not best that we use our morals week days; it gets
them out of repair for Sundays.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the
matter with this, except that it ain't so.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and
Lazarus had the worst.

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