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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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