"Suspicion often creates what it suspects."
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"All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary"
"A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing."
"He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand."
"There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth."
"Prosperity knits a man to the world."
"Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey."
"I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked."
"Pilate was merciful till it became risky."