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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

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By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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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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A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

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All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

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The ancients stole all our ideas from us.

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It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

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To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

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It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

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Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

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Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

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