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The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

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It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

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The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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Be good and you will be lonely.

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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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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

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