A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
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It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
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Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
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Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
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