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In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Describing
Reveal
Someone
Character

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Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.
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Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
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Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.
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When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.
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The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
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True wit has a grave intention.
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Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.
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A quiet fool can go undiscovered for a long time.
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Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
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