Mark Twain Quotes
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinsky
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine
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I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.
Abraham Lincoln
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
Barack Obama
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas
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God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act on such promptings, we tread on holy ground, for we are allowed the opportunity to serve as an agent of God in answering a prayer.
Kathleen H. Hughes
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.
Edmund de Waal
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain
