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All gods are better than their reputation.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

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It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

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I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

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A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

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There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

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Names are not always what they seem.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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Use the right word, not its second cousin.

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Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

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All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

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....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

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Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

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