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Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

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Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.

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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

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