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In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

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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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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.

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A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.

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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

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The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

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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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One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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