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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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If one is honest there is no need to remember.

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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

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Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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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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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

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