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Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

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Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

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Travel is fatal to bigotry.

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When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

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A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

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In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

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A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

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Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

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There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.

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There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

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It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

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When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

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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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Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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