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The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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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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This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

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If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

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Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

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Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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