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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

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It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

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If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

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Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.

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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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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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Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

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A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

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Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

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A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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