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Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

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I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

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Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

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Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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