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for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

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When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

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It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

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You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

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The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

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It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

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How slow and still the time did drag along.

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The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

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

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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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