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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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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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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

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The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

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There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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To be busy is man's only happiness.

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