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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

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There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

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Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

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God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

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My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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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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I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

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It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

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I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

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Honor is a harder master than the law.

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One must travel, to learn.

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How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

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