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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

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But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

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It is better to support schools than jails.

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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

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An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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