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Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

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Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

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Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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Homely truth is unpalatable.

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Dance like nobody's looking.

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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