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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

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Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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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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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

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If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

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All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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