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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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Brooklyn praise is half slander.

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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

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A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

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A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

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None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

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We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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