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I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

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But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

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Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

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