Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

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The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

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