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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Graham Greene

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk

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