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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

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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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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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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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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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