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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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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

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If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

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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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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

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Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

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We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

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Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

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Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

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