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A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

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If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

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There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

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I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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