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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

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Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

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Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

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Children have but little charity for one another's defects

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

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Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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