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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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Answer Children Goodness Simplicity Yourself
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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Deep Different Discipline Learning People Process Quite Writer Writing
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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Coffee Creative People Sports Thinking Work Yourself
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Best God Goodness Hope Limitation Myself Objective Talent Worst
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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Man Myself Pay Right Simplicity Trust

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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