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The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
Gilbert Parker
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He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Gilbert Parker
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Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
Gilbert Parker
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It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Gilbert Parker
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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker
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Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
Gilbert Parker
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It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
Gilbert Parker
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It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
Gilbert Parker
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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Gilbert Parker
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There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
Gilbert Parker
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