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An honest politician is an oxymoron.

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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

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God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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Love heightens all senses - except the common.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.

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Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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