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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

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The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

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This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

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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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Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

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Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

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What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

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We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

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We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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

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