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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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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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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

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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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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

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The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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