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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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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

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The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

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I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

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If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

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