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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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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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I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

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I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

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...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

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A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

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The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

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