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The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

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We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

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What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

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It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

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Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

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The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

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I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

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It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

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