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Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

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Sometimes people do get hurt

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

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I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

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We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

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As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

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You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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