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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

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Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

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I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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It's not as bad as it sounds.

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

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There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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