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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

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A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

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The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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