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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

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Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

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Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

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There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

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