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First catch your Boer, then kick him.

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A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

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In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

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Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.

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Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

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That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

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Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

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I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

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