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I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

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If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.

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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

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There is no humor in heaven.

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

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It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

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