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A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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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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A man may have no bad habits and have worse

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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Tough times teach trust.

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