The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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