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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

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One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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

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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

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A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

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Humor is man's greatest blessing.

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I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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