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As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

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How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

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Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

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If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

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I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

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...heaven for climate, and hell for society.

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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

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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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