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I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

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In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

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Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

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The funniest things are the forbidden.

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Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

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To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

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Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

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It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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