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The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

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We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

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I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

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I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

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There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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