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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

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I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

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Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

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The funniest things are the forbidden.

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

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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

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