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Language is an inventory of human experience. Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. In the field of observation, chance favours the prepared mind. Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other. Duration is not a test of true or false. Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches. In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others. France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. God bless me and my son John, Me and my wife, him and his wife, Us four, and no more. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man. The sickening pang of hope deferr'd. The present is all the ready money Fate can give. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
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