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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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France has usually been governed by prostitutes

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Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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All right, then, I'll go to hell.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

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The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

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