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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

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If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

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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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I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

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Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

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I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

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But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

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Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

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Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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