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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

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The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

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In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

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When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

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Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

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