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It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

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A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

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America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

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The problem with education is school.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

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...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

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Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

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