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A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

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I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.

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We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

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The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

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Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

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If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

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Strange is the man who practices his religion.

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The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

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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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The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

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