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Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

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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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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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A marriage. . .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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All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

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An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

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It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

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Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

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Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

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Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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