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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

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Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

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It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

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They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

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I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

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exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

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When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

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I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

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Golf is a mental disorder.

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Death, only, renders hope futile.

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The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

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No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

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Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

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For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.

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I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

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