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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

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I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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None but the dead have free speech.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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