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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

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One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

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New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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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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Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

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It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

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Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

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The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

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