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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

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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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I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

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

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

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If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

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