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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

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No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

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There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

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We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

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Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

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