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Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

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Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

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Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

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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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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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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

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