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A lifetime spent in and out of embassies has left me half convinced that lies are the normal coinage of human intercourse.

— Albert E. Cowdrey

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Confession might be good for the soul, but if incautiously made public might be death to the body.

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I have never known why women believe the things men tell them – or vice versa.

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Ah, how fortunate are those who have never learned the awful truth taught by hunger: that a man will do anything, to live one single day more!

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