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the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

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Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

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Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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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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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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