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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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