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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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I don't want no better book than what your face is.

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To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

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We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

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These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

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All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

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It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

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To stand still is to fall behind.

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I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

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Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

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

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