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It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

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Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

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Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

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I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

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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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While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

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I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

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The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

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All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

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