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We are all ignorant; just about different things.

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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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It were not best that we should all think alike.

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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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I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

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I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

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There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

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The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

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