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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

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Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

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The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.

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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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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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Chastity - you can carry it too far.

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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

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