"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
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"Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do."
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"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."
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"All cases are unique and very similar to others."
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"In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side."
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"Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency."
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"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."
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"I was told I got 10 measly minutes, but just in case, I brought 13 hours worth of material."
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"God is not outside this earthly case of ours."
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"In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain."
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"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."
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"New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed."
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"The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case."
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"In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves."
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"Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."
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"You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development."
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"Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true."
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"In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices."
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"In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate."
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"My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle ."
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