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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

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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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When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

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She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

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A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

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

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There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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