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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

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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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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

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I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

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What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

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In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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