There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory he should never venture to lie.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

In nine lifetimes you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

In nine lifetimes you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

When I play with my cat who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

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    The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

    Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing

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    You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time

    You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

    The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

    The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

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