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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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Whatever you say, say it with conviction

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It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

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Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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