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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

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Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

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There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

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Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

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Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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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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Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

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Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

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I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

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I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

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You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

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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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