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The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

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All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

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As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

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The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

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Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

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Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

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For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

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Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

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To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

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