“When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.”
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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
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Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
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We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
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