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When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought (1914)

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Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

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An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.

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The most dangerous savages live in cities.

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If you keep your eyes so fixed on Heaven that you never look at the Earth, you will stumble into Hell.

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