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Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

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Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

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An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

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Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

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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 man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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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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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

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