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Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.
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The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.
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Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
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The possession of power brings on madness.
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Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.
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Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
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Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.
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Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.