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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

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Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

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The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

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Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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We have the best government that money can buy.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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