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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

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Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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I was born modest, but it didn't last.

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Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

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Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

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