"Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs."
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"In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole."
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"Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm."
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"Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]"
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"Pleasing ware is half sold."
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"If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea."
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"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."
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"Half-truths are worth more than outright lies."
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"I never wanted to see half the things I've seen, and I've never seen half the things I wanted to. I don't think wanting comes into it. You'd best go all the same."
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"He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily."
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"a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves."
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"The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice."
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"Half a truth is better than no politics."
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"Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed."
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"A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman."
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"It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world."
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"Getting picked gives you half that confidence, or 50 per cent of it"
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"People always remember the second half."
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"Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century."
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"Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life."
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