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Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

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When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

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Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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

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We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

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the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

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Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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