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You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

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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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The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

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I've never let my school interfere with my education.

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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

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...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

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Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

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A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

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Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

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That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

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All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

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