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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

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I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.

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It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

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What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

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To eat is human, to digest, divine

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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

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

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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

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Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

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We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

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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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Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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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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