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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

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Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

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It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

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Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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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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One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

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It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

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Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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