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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

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

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If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

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When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

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If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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