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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

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Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

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Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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Talent without work is useless, thank God

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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

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If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

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Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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