"The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality."

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“I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.”
“The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.”
“Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he will perhaps be saved in the Celestial kingdom; but when he gets there he will not find himself in possession of any wife at all. He has had a talent that he has hid up. He will come forward and say, 'Here is that which thou gavest me, I have not wasted it, and here is the one talent,' and he will not enjoy it but it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received, and he will find himself without any wife, and he will remain single forever and ever.”
“Gratitude is what opens the spiritual doors to all the blessings. Everything becomes clear, you see, you feel, you live.”
“The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.”
“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
“I keep a pretty tight grip on my schedule and I compare it a lot to a fireman's - a four-on then four-off type of deal.”
“I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.”

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