"Things are often spoke and seldom meant...." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
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“If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.”
“The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.”
“And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real”