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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

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What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

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