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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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