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I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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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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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

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Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

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What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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