The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

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Loyalty is still the same,Whether it win or lose the gameTrue as a dial to the sun,Although it be not shined upon.

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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

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