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There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

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The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

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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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Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

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

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Sometimes people do get hurt

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

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That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

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Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

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