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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

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And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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Talent without work is useless, thank God

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

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To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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