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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

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There is only one good sex. The female one.

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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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