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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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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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To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

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If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

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We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

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Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

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It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.

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I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

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Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

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Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

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Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

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Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

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I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

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A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

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