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But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

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An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

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The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.

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I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

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Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

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You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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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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