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Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

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Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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