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If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

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France has usually been governed by prostitutes

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It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

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To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

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I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

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We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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It is higher and nobler to be kind.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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