"A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots."
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"I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written."
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"No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy."
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"An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths."
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"When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill."
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"Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!"
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"You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half."
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"I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love."
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"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
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"No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens."
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"Women are the twin halves of men."
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"It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy."
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"I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century."
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"In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead."
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"u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality."
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"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."
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"If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish"
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"The bastards murdered half my family."
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"A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way."
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"I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted."
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