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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

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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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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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