All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

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Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

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