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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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