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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
[ Humor ]
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
[ Work ]
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
[ Secrets ]
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
[ Critics and Criticism ]
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
[ Courage ]
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
[ Home ]
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
[ Gossip ]
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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
[ Wine ]
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
[ Illusion ]
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
[ Sea ]
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
[ Army and Navy ]
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
[ Memory ]
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What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
[ Peace ]
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
[ Words ]
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
[ Enemies ]
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