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Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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Experience comes from bad judgment.

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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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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

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If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

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

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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