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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

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One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

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There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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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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No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

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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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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

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