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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

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If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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Faith is believing things you know aint true

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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

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The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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

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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

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Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

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Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

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A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

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