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A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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Be good and you'll be lonesome

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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

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The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

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An honest politician is an oxymoron.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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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 machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

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Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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