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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

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But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

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Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

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I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

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Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

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We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

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Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

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Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

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The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

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Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive.

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