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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

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The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

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Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

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isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

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

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

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Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

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There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

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Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.

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A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

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A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

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