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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

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Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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