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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

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Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

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Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.

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Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

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The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

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All gods are better than their reputation.

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Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

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We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.

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