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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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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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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revivalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.

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If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

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When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

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I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

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