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" There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. "
Josh Billings
Truth
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" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "
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" It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. "
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" There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. "
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