Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Only the sinner has a right to preach

Only the sinner has a right to preach

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of...

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of...

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...

He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or...

He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or...

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe...

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe...

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her...

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her...

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe...

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe...

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a...

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a...