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Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

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India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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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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The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

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There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

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