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In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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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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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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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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I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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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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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

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One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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