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Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

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I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

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The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

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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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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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