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How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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Never mistake motion for progress.

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Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.

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Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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