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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

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What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

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One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

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The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

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An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

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We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

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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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I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

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The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

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The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business. You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths to destroy it.

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If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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