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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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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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Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

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Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

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In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity.

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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

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