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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

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Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

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Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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

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You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

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Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

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Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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