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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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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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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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To stand still is to fall behind.

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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

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What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

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Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

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Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

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I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

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The problem with education is school.

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