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- Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
- I.F. Stone
- Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
- Turkish proverb
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977)
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