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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

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It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

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Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

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I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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Everything human is pathetic

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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.

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Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

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To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

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None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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