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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

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France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

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In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

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S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

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All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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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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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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