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The gentle reader will never, ...

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

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There is no unhappiness like t...

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

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It liberates the vandal to tra...

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

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Travel has no longer any charm...

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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I am technically 'boss' of t...

I am technically 'boss' of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

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Always tell the truth. That wa...

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

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The statesmen will invent chea...

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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I have not professionally deal...

I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.

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No real gentleman will tell th...

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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We are always hearing of peopl...

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up s

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I don't mind what the oppositi...

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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All of us contain Music & Trut...

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

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Truth is stranger than fiction...

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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When in doubt, tell the truth....

When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, 'When you are in doubt,' but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity.

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My own luck has been curious a...

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

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There have been innumerable Te...

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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It is not worth while to strai...

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

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Tell the truth or trump-but ge...

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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But it was ever thus, all thro...

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

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An injurious truth has no meri...

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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