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I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.

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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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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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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

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Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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