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• Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with…
• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money,…
• If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has…
• Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy,…
• Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one…
• The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the…
• We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but…
• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona…
• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
• The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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