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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

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A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

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It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

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Life is short, break the rules.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

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If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

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What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

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Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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