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I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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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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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

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