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A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

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The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.

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Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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