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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

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Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all.

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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

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You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

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I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

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...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

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Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him; has passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.

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