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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

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Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

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I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

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My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it, as I am, every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination, maybe of indolence, shifts the cargo.

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Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

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Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

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So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

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In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

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

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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

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There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

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