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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an arg

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. – Stephen Leacock

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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacock

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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I dont see how I can ever trust any human being again. – Ulysses S. Grant

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Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. – Claude M. Bristol

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People shouldnt trust artists and they shouldnt trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. – Tony Kushner

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My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction… The music is what saved me. Thats the only thing I can trust. – Nicole Scherzinger

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And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato

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