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If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

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Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

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You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

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War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

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In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

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