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There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

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The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

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To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

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The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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