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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.