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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

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'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

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I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

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

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

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Homely truth is unpalatable.

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

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Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

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I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

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