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The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

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Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

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We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

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The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

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Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

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Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

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There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

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It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

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All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

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God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

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