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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

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It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

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The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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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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We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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All generalizations are false, including this one.

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