This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.
If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them
Immortality — a fate worse than death.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.