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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

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I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

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...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

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The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

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The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

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I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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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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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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The real yellow peril: Gold.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

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You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

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