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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

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Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

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Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

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It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

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Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

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Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

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The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

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