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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

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Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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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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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

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All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

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My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

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