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Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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

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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

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When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

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It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

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When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

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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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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

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Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

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And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

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