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But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

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Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

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Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

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I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

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Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

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Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

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If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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