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There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

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Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

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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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Travel is lethal to prejudice.

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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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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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

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Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

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I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

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Tight pants are just uncomfortable.

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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

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When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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