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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

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It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

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You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

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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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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

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There isn't any way to libel the human race.

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I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

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There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

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You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

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He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

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My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

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A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

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There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

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