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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

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What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

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There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

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They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

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Let your joy be unconfined!

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

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If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

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