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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

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Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

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We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

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It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

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If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

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Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

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