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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

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Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

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What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

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It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

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It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

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The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

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The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

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