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More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

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I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

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No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.

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That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

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A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

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I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

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A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

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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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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

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