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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

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God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

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Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

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Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

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One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

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All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

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I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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Life ain't about how fast you run or how high you climb, It's all about how good you bounce. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

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