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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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School gets in the way of my learning.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

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There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

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Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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