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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

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It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

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It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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