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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

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My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

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I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

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There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

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Never do wrong when people are looking.

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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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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It is better to give than receive- especially advice.

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