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Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

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We are all beggars, each in his own way.

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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

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Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

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I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

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What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

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The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

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The funniest things are the forbidden.

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The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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