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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

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History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

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One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

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Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

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I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

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Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

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