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Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

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Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

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Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

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Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

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Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

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Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

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