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We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

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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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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

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[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys of life or you too will say...] There has been much tragedy in my life; [and] at least half of it actually happened.

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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

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Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty

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an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

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I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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