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It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

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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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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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Sometimes people do get hurt

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

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Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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Distance lends enchantment to the view.

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Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

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Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

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Definite speech means clarity of mind.

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...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

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