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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

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A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

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God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

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...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

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...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

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I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel .

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Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

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