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I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

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One place is very like another.

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The rottenness comes from within.

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Assumptions are dangerous things.

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Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

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In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly tha…

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No innocent person ever has an alibi.

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Fear is incomplete knowledge.

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you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

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