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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

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Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

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I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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France has usually been governed by prostitutes

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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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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

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