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“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”

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Herman Melville

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

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