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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

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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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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

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Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

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Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

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All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

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Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

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Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

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Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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Labor in loneliness is irksome.

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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

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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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Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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