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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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Children and fools always speak the truth

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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Geological time is not money.

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

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It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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