Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not...

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not...

All a man can betray is his conscience.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those...

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those...

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with...

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps...

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps...

All a man can betray is his conscience

All a man can betray is his conscience

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the...

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the...

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men...

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men...

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by...

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by...