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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

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It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

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Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

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

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

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The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

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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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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

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Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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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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The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

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