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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

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Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

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If I had more time, I would have written less.

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

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If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

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On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

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I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

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