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I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and hear the ax; When I see calves and lambs, I see Them led to death; I see no bird Or rabbit cross the open field But what a sudden shot is heard; A shout that tells me men aim true, For death or wound, doth chill me through. W.H. Davies I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

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It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

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The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

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Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

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The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

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There is no accounting for human beings.

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A better idea than my own is to listen.

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To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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